Django missing admin CSS stylesheets

Follow up on three of my previous posts:

• How to install and configure mod_wsgi on FreeBSD 8.2
• How to install and configure Django with mod_wsgi on FreeBSD 8.2
• Install PostgreSQL on FreeBSD 8.2 and make it work with Django

I have been following the official Django tutorial and creating the polls app. I have decided to test my app in a FreeBSD virtual machine with properly configured Apache instead of the development server though.

I got to the part where I am supposed to log in into the automatically generated admin area.  The http://IP_OF_MY_TEST_VM/admin/ works and I get the admin sign in page but the links to stylesheets are not working. It’s simple to fix that.

My app is located in /usr/local/www/myapp folder and it’s document root is set via httpd.conf to /usr/local/www/myapp/public directory. So:

#cd /usr/local/www/myapp/public
#mkdir static
#cd static
#mkdir admin
#cp -r /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/* /usr/local/www/myapp/public/static/admin

That should copy free directories (css, img, js) into your document root. One more thing, edit your virtual host configuration to tell mod_wsgi to match /static/ to /usr/local/www/myapp/public/static/:

WSGIPythonPath /usr/local/www
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName localhost.home
  ServerAlias localhost.home

  DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/myapp/public
  Alias /static/ /usr/local/www/myapp/public/static/

  <Directory /usr/local/www/myapp/public>
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
  </Directory>

  WSGIScriptAlias / /usr/local/www/myapp/wsgi.py

  <Directory /usr/local/www>
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Restart Apache:

#/usr/local/sbin/apachectl restart

And go to http://IP_OF_MY_TEST_VM/admin/. CSS stylesheets should now get loaded properly